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Frederick married firstly Agnes of Gorizia-Tyrol (d. 14 May 1293) in 1286, daughter of Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia and Elisabeth of Bavaria.They had one son: Frederick the Lame (9 May 1293 – 13 January 1315, Zwenkau), married Anna (d. 22 November 1327, Wismar), daughter of Albert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Agnes Habsburg, Daughter of Rudolph I of Germany.
The grave of Frederick I of Saxony, Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral Portal to the Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral. Frederick I, the Belligerent or the Warlike (German: Friedrich der Streitbare; 11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428), a member of the House of Wettin, ruled as Margrave of Meissen from 1407 and Elector of Saxony (as Frederick I) from 1423 until his death.
The first Meissen margrave, Wigbert, is mentioned in a 968 charter of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg. That same year, the Meissen fortress also became the see of the newly created Bishopric of Meissen. In 978, the Saxon count Rikdag became the Margrave of Meissen, and incorporated the marches of Merseburg and Zeitz into Meissen.
King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (Mišno) on the Elbe river. Later named Albrechtsburg, the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast Marca Geronis (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon ...
Frederick V: The Division of Altenburg on September 26, 1445 attempted to divide the Saxon lands between Frederick IV's two sons Frederick VI and William III. But when Frederick VI chose the western part (Thuringia) instead of Meissen, William III rejected his choice and the Saxon Fratricidal War started. In the end Frederick VI received ...
Frederick was the only son of the Wettin margrave Theodoric of Landsberg and Helene, a daughter of Margrave John I of Brandenburg; he thereby was a grandson of Margrave Henry III of Meissen. Upon his father's early death in 1285, he succeeded him in the Margraviate of Landsberg, then comprising the bulk of the Osterland territory with Leipzig ...
Matilde married May 1323 in Nürnberg to Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, son of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen and had 9 children: Elisabeth (22 November 1329 – 21 April 1375), married to Friedrich V, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Frederick (born and died 1330) Frederick III the Strict; Balthasar
Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen; Frederick I, Elector of Saxony; Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen; Frederick II, Elector of Saxony; Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia; Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia; Frederick Tuta; Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen